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Nvidia owes some folks socks, after knocking them off at their pre-CES press conference last night. The video card maker announced GeForce GRID, a cloud-gaming service that will stream PC games to smart TV,s tablets and smartphones. The company also unveiled the new Tegra4 chip which is a quad core 4+1 like the Tegra3 but should have 6 time stye performance. And the sock-knocker was Project SHIELD, a portable game console in the shape of a controller with a flip-out touch screen. The device runs Android and can stream PC games.

Google's Eric Schmidt has arrived in North Korea, accompanying Bill Richardson, former N.M. governor and former ambassador to the U.N., on what's being described as a "private humanitarian mission." The U.S. State Department has expressed extreme disapproval about the trip, with a spokesperson saying: "We don't think the timing of this is particularly helpful" given a recent, controversial missile launch. Richardson told CBS This Morning that "He is going as a private citizen; this is not a Google trip,".

Lenovo never lets us down at CES. The company introduced the IdeaCentre Horizon which it calls the "world's first table pc." The Horizon is an all-in-one PC with a 27-inch touchscreen that can be laid flat on your table. The IdeaCentre Horizon runs Windows 8, but will have a second UI to make it easier for multiple users to play games on it. Lenovo says it'll be released around the early summer for about $1700.

Roku announced hundreds of new channel partners for it's Internet streaming video box, but the one getting all the attention is Time Warner Cable. Existing subscribers to TWC will be able to get up to 300 live channels streaming to a free Roku app starting sometime before April.

Apple's app store has reached 40billion downloads! some other impressive numbers apple has released: There are more than 500 million active accounts on the App Store, and December saw more than 2 billion apps downloaded. There are now more than 775,000 applications for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and developers have been paid more than $7 billion to date. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services says that apple will continue to invest in providing devs with "the best ecosystem so they can create the most innovative apps in the world."

The French government has told Free, a French ISP, that the ISP cannot block online ads. Free gave its users software to block pop-ups and other ads. French online publishing and advertising groups complained to the French government that it was losing revenue. France's minister for the digital economy said that "An Internet service provider cannot unilaterally implement such blocking."

Lego unveiled the third generation of its Mindstorm programmable robots. EV3 features more sensors and motors and more ways to program including mobile apps. The new product with its 594 pieces that can make five different robots should begin selling this summer at a retail cost of $350.

You thought CES was all about TVs? Nope! Fitbit announced a new fitness tracker called the Fitbit Flex, which is a wristband style tracker. Withings also introduced a new gadget called the Smart Activity Tracker which is a lot like a FitBit One, actually. The Flex ships in the spring for about $100, the's no pricing or availability info on the Withings product though.

Toshiba had a boatload of announcements for CES. First up, Toshiba's entering the U.S. 4K TV market. The televisions will be available in three sizes: 58, 65 and 84-inches. No pricing was mentioned however. Toshiba's also introducing "CloudTV," which is effectively its name for its smartTV functions. There's also Toshiba's new Blu-ray players with CloudTV built-in -- Toshiba's calling them "Media Boxes."

LG announced a slate of huge new TVs along with the promise that all their LCD TVs will use LEDs. The biggest deal, though previously announced, was the 100-inch Hecto laser projector, coming to Korea later this month and the US in March. No price. Also a 55-inch OLED TV will begin shipping this MArch for only $12,000 on up to an even more expensive 65-inch OLED. And almost mundane next tot hess giants, LG announced 55 and 65-inch 4K TVs to go along with the 84-inch version they already sell. Oh and the magic remote now lets you write numbers of channels int he air.

What's new in the world of Vizio? Glad you asked. Vizio announced it will join the 4K party this year. The company will offer three Ultra HDTVs at sizes of 55, 65 and 70 inches. Pricing and availability weren't discussed, but Vizio says it'll "bring the expensive new technology to mainstream consumers." Vizio also announced some new 3D HDTVs, but that's so last year.

[TEMP] Sharp held its CES Keynote and here are some of the things it announced. Sharp showed off its 4K televisions and says its ICC Purios is the first UHD TV to receive THX certification. It'll ship in the summer of this year. A 60-inch Aquos Ultra HD TV will launch in the second half of the year. Also, Sharp is introducing a second screen remote control for iOS and Android.

IdeaCentre Horizon- 27-inch touchscreen all-in-one PC, Lenovo calls it the world's first "table PC." Angles are adjustable via a hinge. - Lenovo also bundles the Table PC with joysticks and an e-dice. designed for multi-player games (EA Games has pre-loaded several titles, including Monopoly, customized fro the Horizon)- Runs Windows 8 and a custom UI called "Aura" when you lay the machine down- You get access to a class of apps in Lenovo's App Shop. Will launch with over 3,000 apps for the table PC- Has a battery, runs for 2 hours- Starts at "approximately $1699" with a release for early summer

- Hulu CEO Jason Kilar and CTO Rich Tom are set to depart the company in Q1, Kilar announced in an email to the company’s staff, which he made public on Hulu’s official blog Friday afternoon. Both have been with co. Since start in 2007- Hulu had a great year: Hulu had $695 million in revenues in 2012, a 65% increase compared to 2011.- Hulu Plus Hulu Plus, grew from 1 million to 1.5 million subscribers between September 2011 and January 2012 before reaching 3 million in dec.- rumors of Kilar leaving for months, Yahoo rumor- is this Kilar leaving at the peak? Is Hulu's future doomed?

- joint venture of News Corp.’s Fox, Disney-ABC, NBCUniversal, although the latter isn’t involved in Hulu’s strategy due to its own acquisition by Comcast. In addition, it was reported that Providence Equity Partners had closed a deal to sell its stake of Hulu, which means it is now controlled by News Corp. and Disney.- when providence cashed out, many employees did too. Could see big turnover

- Researcher at SurfSec who goes by the name Clrokr found a way to run unsigned desktop apps on Windows RT- Currently only Windows Store apps can be installed on Windows RT devices- The jailbreak uses an exploit a setting in RAM- limited functionality as x86 applications would have to be recompiled for ARM- the jailbreak also must be executed each time the OS is booted up or reset

Q: Should MS turn a blind eye to this hack (like it did with the Xbox) or not?

I was listening to Friday’s show and had a couple of points I’d like to feed back.

E-Readers: Compared to a book, they are expensive, so it takes a lot of time before it is written down. An E-Reader is something that most people will be looking at replacing every 4 – 5 years or so, if it doesn’t last that long, it isn’t cost effective. It is like old candybar phones, most people would replace them when they stopped working, which was generally 4 – 6 years. People on contracts would replace them every couple of years, but there wasn’t the clamour to replace them that there is with smartphones.

I also think that the tablet market will start to see this as well. Just like the PC market, where a lot of home users are happy to use a PC until it breaks or a new application they need won’t install, because Windows 95 is no longer supported, tablets will be seen in the same way. I have friends and family members who have “upgraded” to 2006 vintage PCs in the last 18 months, because their Windows 95 machines stopped working, or they are buying new, bargain basement PCs with the expectation that they will run for at least 10 years.

Their attitudes for smartphones and tablets are the same, if they are going to buy one, then it will be a long term investment – when an iPad costs more than they would give out on a new PC, it has to last longer than the PC!

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Hi TNT Gang:In regards to your report on China's new yellow light law... I'd like to mention a little known and seldom followed piece of Michigan's motor vehicle laws:

Michigan law states that on a yellow light, motorists must stop before entering the intersection... with only one exception: if it is unsafe to do so.

Having been ticketed for "running a yellow light" once in my youth, I'm painfully aware of this little detail. It makes me wince a little when I go under a freshly-yellowed traffic light thinking "I could have stopped for that safely" only to see three cars following in my rear-view mirror. Then again, my wife says I drive like I'm 30 years older than I am.

Thanks for the great show. you guys rock, Andy the System Engineer from Michigan

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